Relevance feedback exploiting query-specific document manifolds

  • Authors:
  • Chang Wang;Emine Yilmaz;Martin Szummer

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab,, New York, USA;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We incorporate relevance feedback into a learning to rank framework by exploiting query-specific document similarities. Given a few judged feedback documents and many retrieved but unjudged documents for a query, we learn a function that adjusts the initial ranking score of each document. Scores are fit so that documents with similar term content get similar scores, and scores of judged documents are close to their labels. By such smoothing along the manifold of retrieved documents, we avoid overfitting, and can therefore learn a detailed query-specific scoring function with several dozen term weights.